Poland of To-Day and Yesterday, A Review of its History, Past and Present, and of the Causes Which Resulted in its Partition, Together with a Survey of its Social, Political, and Economic Conditions To-Day
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii, 349 pp, with many illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth binding with decoration in red, blue, silver, and gilt. Spine lettering somewhat faded, light rubbing to extremities, a few pages with foxing at the margins. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked; binding sound. No dust jacket. A contemporary review notes that this book "not only relates the story but endeavors to present and explain the character of the Poles." Winter himself writes in the Preface: "Poles are seeking our shores in great numbers, and it is well to know who they are and why they come. Their blood will enter into the composite American type that will eventually be evolved....A study of the history of Poland and the conditions still existing in the land of their birth furnishes the best answer."
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Price: $50.00